Use spoke in a sentence
Sentences ending with spoke
- You--" Abruptly and with surprise she withdrew her hand, and, without any visible emotion save a quicker pulsation of her breast, which might have been indignation, spoke. [11]
- It was so with every one to whom he spoke. [9]
- The fresh-water fisherman was the first who spoke. [6]
- The odd thing was that he should have bowed to Clark, who was dressed no differently from Bowman and Harrod and Duff; and the man's voice trembled piteously as he spoke. [9]
- He rose and walked over to the fireplace and flicked his ashes into it before he spoke. [9]
- At last she ventured, and her breath came a little shorter as she spoke. [11]
- He knew that Valmond understood whereof he spoke. [11]
- When she came to bed he did not stir, and he did not answer her when she spoke. [11]
- So she went thither to pray and sacrifice for you, although she knew that you were prosecuting her brother, the very painter of whom I spoke. [10]
- Wetherell asked himself these questions before he spoke. [9]
Short sentences using spoke
- Silver Tassel spoke up loudly. [11]
- He rarely spoke, unless questioned. [10]
- Then she spoke to Hulm. [11]
- So I spoke to Gabord. [11]
- She spoke of this. [5]
- And she spoke the truth. [12]
- I spoke before the time. [11]
- Emerson spoke of the Mormons. [6]
- She spoke to the horse. [9]
- He so seldom spoke. [9]
Sentences containing spoke two or more times
- He spoke a word--a name--I couldn't understand it, though he spoke clear as a bell. [13]
- She spoke English with no perceptible accent, as she spoke Spanish, Italian, French, Hungarian and Greek; and there was nothing in her speech marking her as different from the ordinary Western woman. [11]
- He never spoke when sober, he spoke continuously when he wasn't. [5]
- They spoke of the war, and like everyone else unconsciously exaggerated their sorrow about it; they spoke of their last meeting--Nicholas trying to change the subject--they talked of the governor's kind wife, of Nicholas' relations, and of Princess Mary's. [2]
- He spoke of the governor of Vaucouleurs, the first night, simply as the governor of Vaucouleurs; he spoke of him the second night as his uncle the governor of Vaucouleurs; the third night he was his father. [5]
- He spoke and spoke, while the others listened without moving until he raised a large goblet and took such a long draught that the duchess was frightened. [10]
- Uncle Jim seldom spoke to her, as he seldom spoke to anybody, but she had an inkling of the rancour in his heart, and many a time she put blame upon his shoulders to her husband, when some unavoidable friction came. [11]
- When Prince Andrew spoke (he could tell a story very well), Natasha listened to him with pride; when she spoke she noticed with fear and joy that he gazed attentively and scrutinizingly at her. [2]
- I said this partly through young Z, who spoke German very well, and partly through Mr. X, who spoke it peculiarly. [5]
- But Richard, who never knew self-consciousness, spoke freely of Frank when he spoke at all; and it was seeing Lali's eyes brighten and her look earnestly fixed on him when he chanced to mention Frank's name, that determined him on his new method of instruction. [11]
More example sentences with the word spoke in them
- One man, whom your correspondent spoke to, said that he had had one hundred and fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. [5]
- Pierre hated him; Young Aleck admired in him a quality lying dormant in himself--decision; Mab Humphrey spoke unkindly of no one. [11]
- He looked like you, he spoke like you, he called the men as you do, nay he sat as you do when the road was too bad for his chariot, [The Mohars used chariots in their journeys. [10]
- But--from the way you spoke, I should have thought nothing could have kept you away. [9]
- I spoke to you of a secret that will put Paaker into our power. [10]
- I have found you my true and faithful friend, and I had been in danger of believing those over-anxious counsellors who spoke evil of you. [10]
- He spoke of you even at the very last," she went on, turning her eyes from Pierre to her companion with a shyness that surprised him for an instant. [2]
- You said what you chose, and spoke from your own convictions, and catered to no one. [9]
- But twice every year he went to yonder point and spoke out the King's words to him: 'John York, John York, where art thou gone, John York? [11]
- For one thing, X always spoke with such confidence--perhaps that helped. [5]
- How our cheeks would burn when many a time we spoke of the love which was the bond between Gotz and his fair Gertrude. [10]
- Mr. Isaac D. Worthington stood erect beside the table, his hand thrust into the opening of his coat, and spoke at the rate of one hundred and eight words a minute, for exactly one hour. [9]
- In low, kind words she spoke of his coming and the renewal of her hopes, coupled with fear also that he might not fit in with his new life, and--she could say it now--do something unbearable. [11]
- She spoke no word, but gently undid the other's hair, and smoothed and brushed it softly. [11]
- Hume spoke no word to them, but looked at them and stood up. [11]
- It was a wondrous ramble; now and then I gasped for breath, yet on we went till, on the topmost bough of an oak, behold, there was Lorenz Abenberger, and the evil words he spoke made me wake up. [10]
- And then a woman in deep mourning emerged from a tiny shop and took her bicycle from against the wall and spoke to me. [9]
- She spoke now without looking at Justine. [11]
- I was angry with you, to be sure, because--but when I spoke I really and truly did not think of you, but only of poor Paula. [10]
- The quiet confidence with which he spoke aroused, suddenly, a twinge of antagonism. [9]
- Barnum spoke up with vivacity and said: "It's a first-rate idea. [5]
- All was well with the younger orphans; they were often taken to see Selene, and spoke with affection of their new parents. [10]
- Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed worthy of antiquity had been performed by General Raevski. [2]
- Miss Bronte spoke with the greatest warmth of Miss Martineau, and of the good she had gained from her. [14]
- The long windows, with the curtains drawn in the deep, panelled arches; the carved white mantelpiece; the glint of silver on' the sideboard, with its wine-cooler underneath,--these, spoke of generations of respectability and achievement. [9]
- He spoke now with the authority of divine justice. [11]
- His eye filled with tears when he spoke of her. [10]
- The minister spoke with more ease, and we could hear him better. [4]
- Tom spoke out, with lively apprehension-- "We be going to the dogs, 'tis plain. [5]
- Her eyes sparkled with joy, and her features wore an expression of compassion only at brief intervals, when the youth spoke of the greatest sufferings which he had borne with his uncle. [10]
- She always spoke with enthusiasm to her visitors of her daughter-in-law Cecilia, of her beauty, her piety and her gentleness; in fact, she did all she could to make it appear that she herself had chosen her son's wife. [10]
- He spoke slowly, with assurance that he would be listened to, and he looked only at the person with whom he was conversing. [2]
- He spoke seriously, with apparent solicitude. [11]
- Second, he spoke with all the weight of the then accepted science and philosophy. [9]
- They spoke together with a strange inconsistency, in whispers; unwilling to disturb again the dreary echoes they had just now raised. [12]
- Presently he spoke, with a little deferential anxiety in the tone. [11]
- She spoke English with a French accent. [9]
- Then the elecampane wine did good service; yet was it not till she had drunk of it many times that her tongue spoke plainly again. [10]
- Aye, and I will give my best Iceland Gerfalcon for a lame crow if every word she spoke concerning the death of Junker Herdegen was not false knavery. [10]
- But the king's wife, seeing, came and spoke to the king and the others, crying out for the honour of her dead son; so that in a moment of anger they all cried out for death. [11]
- The thieves of whom you spoke spoiled her pleasure in granting hospitality. [10]
- He guessed for whom were these lamentations, and prompted by the wish to prove the falsity of the accusation that charged him with having entered the house as a spy, he spoke to the widow. [10]
- She alone knew whom she meant when she spoke of the visitor she expected at Irenia, Archibius's estate. [10]
- Like Paul, of whom he spoke, he too was transformed, had come to his own, radiating a new power that seemed to shine in his face. [9]
- There were those who spoke of her wanderings in lonely places as an unsafe exposure. [6]
- It was she who spoke most, and Alexander, whom nothing escaped that had any form of beauty, feasted his ear on the pearly ring of her voice. [10]
- It was Nick who spoke first. [9]
- It was he who spoke first. [9]
- Now the one who spoke before is crying; do you hear? [10]
- We found many who had eaten the dorian, and they all spoke of it with a sort of rapture. [5]
- Harvey in particular, who had come from England early in the century with my grandfather, spoke with bitterness of him. [9]
- Here the General, who had been sitting by watching them with a very curious expression, spoke up. [9]
- And then Evelyn, who had been eating quantities of hothouse grapes, spoke up. [9]
- It was Nebenchari who first spoke to Cambyses of the charms of thy daughter Tachot. [10]
- Poor Aunt Mary, who did not understand that a performance of "Pinafore" could give birth to the unfulfilled longings which result in the creation of high things, spoke to Uncle Tom a week later concerning an astonishing and apparently abnormal access of industry. [9]
- The wailing widow, who called on him to return with "the silent speech of tears," was that queen of the idolater's devils whose shameful worship her father had often spoke of with horror. [10]
- Once in a while, when he saw Comyn at Almack's, he would desire to be remembered to me, and he always spoke of me with affection. [9]
- You spoke, a while back, of trying to start it up again as a preparation to disposing of it, but we are not in shape to venture that, I think. [5]
- When he spoke, which was at rare intervals, his voice was without feeling, concise, insistent, unappealing. [11]
- The shipwreck of which the Arab spoke has overtaken him. [10]
- Weeks passed in which she scarcely spoke a word. [9]
- The matter of which I spoke to you so earnestly shall be just as earnestly attended to--and again with very many warm regards for Jo. [5]
- The banquet of which he spoke occupied long years. [10]
- I don't know whether we spoke Persian or Syrian, but we said the most charming things to one another. [10]
- I knew not whether he lied concerning Alixe, but my heart was wrung with misery, for indeed he spoke with an air of truth. [11]
- She obeyed, and wherever it was necessary to climb over the rocks, he supported and lifted her, but he only spoke when she addressed him. [10]
- By the trenches, where five men had died so bravely, and a traitorous pasha had paid the full penalty of a crime and won a soldier's death, David spoke to his living comrades. [11]
- He shed tears when they spoke of the grandfather, and appeared in deep affliction. [12]
- He knew that when she seemed most inert, most impassive to turbulent occurrences, most careless of consequences, she was but waiting till, in her own mind, her plans were grown; so that she should see her end clearly ere she spoke or moved. [11]
- So felt Lincoln when on the field of Gettysburg he spoke those immortal words which Pericles could not have bettered, which Aristotle could not have criticised. [3]
- I said that when Judge Douglas was speaking at place--where I spoke on the succeeding day he used very harsh language about this charge. [7]
- On the contrary, when he spoke it was in the same tone as before. [10]
- In mediaeval times, when a bishop spoke ex cathedra, his authority, so far as it carried weight, came from two sources. [9]
- He spoke in what the 'Baltimore American' calls the "scathing and withering style. [7]
- No matter of what he wrote or spoke, his words, his tones, his looks, carried the evidence of a sincerity which pervaded them all and was to his eloquence and poetry like the water of crystallization; without which they would effloresce into mere rhetoric. [6]
- I couldn't hear what he said, but I knew be spoke to you! [5]
- He spoke, but what he said I knew not, for the stark upturned face of Juste Duvarney was there before me, there was a great buzzing in my ears, and I fell back into darkness. [11]
- He spoke of what he knew might interest the old lady and that she could understand. [2]
- But those sounds were so real and so human and so moving that the idea of ghosts passed straight out of our minds, and Sir Jean de Metz spoke out and said: "Come! [5]
- The members who were assembling for dinner were sitting about in groups; they greeted Pierre and spoke of the town news. [2]
- I speak French well, I presume, but I spoke it from the cradle. [11]
- He knew French well, but could speak almost no Jersey patois, so, in compliment to him, Jean Touzel, Ranulph, and Guida spoke in English. [11]
- She spoke so well today," said Princess Mary. [2]
- Philip seemed to wear no mark of convention, and Guida spoke her thoughts freely to him. [11]
- When we spoke, we almost invariably addressed him, his rare words fell like bolts upon the consciousness. [9]
- There are other ways of teaching besides preaching, and of that which the dominie taught best he spoke not a word. [9]
- The easy, familiar way in which she spoke surprised and pleased me. [6]
- At first she was very timid, but when I spoke of Pentaur she grew eager; her reverence for him is almost idolatry--and that vexed me. [10]
- At first I was very cautious, but when I perceived that the opinions of the doubters and deniers merely inspired her with pity, I spoke more freely. [10]
- And her heart was turned from her son's step-daughter, whom at first she had welcomed right kindly; she overlooked her as a rule, or if she spoke to her, it was in harsh and ungracious tones. [10]
- Ripton knew it was there, Camden Street knew it, and Mr. Vane's acquaintances throughout the State; but nobody ever spoke of it. [9]
- While the storm was still raging, I made up a Scotch couplet, and then spoke up and said: "Very well, don't say any more. [5]
- And though I was somewhat awed by the strangeness of that dark, ill-smelling room, and by the rough company in which I found myself, I held my ground, and spoke up as strongly as I might. [9]
- But the party was small, her Majesty was very gracious and spoke to me often, and I saw that above all things she liked to be amused. [9]
- The Tenth Article was resentful against her for "pretending" that St. Catherine and St. Marguerite spoke French and not English, and were French in their politics. [5]
- I said I was obliged to him for his compliment, since I knew he meant it for one, but that I was not fairly entitled to it, for I did not speak English at all--I only spoke American. [5]
- Quite mad he was not, for the illusions which haunted him were often absent for several hours, when he spoke with perfect lucidity, received reports, and gave orders. [10]
- Epagathos, the freedman, was lying on a mattress from the dining-room; the corpulent physician slept soundly, and if he snored too loudly, old Adventus poked him and quietly spoke a word of warning to him. [10]
- The hypocrite's voice was full of unction; the deaconess spoke with pious gravity. [10]
- Three months it was from the day Biatt first spoke to me to the day when, with an expert diver, we brought the box to the surface and opened it. [11]
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